"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No. The CGI script has a file handle, and it is not possible to pass > a file handle to a different process. > > > If there is not a good Pythonic way to do the above, I am open to > > mixing in some C to do the job if that is what it takes. > > No, it's not Python that fails to support that - it's the operating > system. See above for solutions that avoid one such copying in > the first place.
If this is a Linux server, it might be possible to use the SCM_RIGHTS message to pass the socket between processes. That would require a patch to Python's socket library which I've never gotten around to writing but it's been on my want-to-do list for a long time. There is something similar for Solaris and probably for *BSD. I've been under the impression that this is how preforked Apache distributes requests between processes, but I never got around to checking. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=814689&group_id=5470&atid=355470 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
